Hey, this blew up, or at least it blew up more than any of my previous videos! Thanks! I sure wasn't expecting my first comments from strangers to mostly be editing/recording advice, but God knows I need that, so thank you!! Yes, the editing is super janky, especially the volume. It gets better in future videos (and the picture gets a lot crisper) because I recorded this months ago, as I was still figuring out my studio setup, and there are a few things I've learned since. I'm always grateful for advice from people who know their shit, though, because I'm a total newborn with this stuff & I'd love to learn more about how to do it professionally. The suggestion of a neoprene mat for my desk is a new one - I'll order one right away. A bunch of commenters are asking me to get a pop filter, but I have one on my mic - how am I using it wrong? How should I use it correctly?
@@torscabinetofcuriosities you’re not necessarily using it wrong, it’s just ineffective at it’s distance from sound source. you may want to experiment with an audio compressor at some point as it can save your voice from fatigue. I’ll add that I know nothing about TH-cam content creation🤣 Excited for your next essay!
Since I can't add anything of value regarding editing or technical aspects of recording, I'll just say: it's probably a good sign that the comments are all regarding editing, and not complaining about the content 🎉
I can’t tell whether this channel is unintentionally genius, or I’ve actually stumbled onto a fantastic YT in its early days. I’m sure everyone associated with this is far too young to have any idea of the awkwardness of cable access, but this channel essentially recreates it perfectly. Sure, I could give you a bunch of well-meaning constructive criticisms, but I’ll let others do that & instead just say “well fucking done.” Subscribed.
The awkward drinking from the bottle at the end is chef's kiss. The whole thing is definitely a contrived look. From the hairstyle, the glasses, seat too low, etc. Even the music and intro is designed to convey something from the 80s.
I love how shit like this isn’t even surprising or hidden to us anymore, like the more weird it is the more we just assume “cia” now and are probably right. Case and point I came looking for this comment and found it
Honestly that's a good place to be these days. Its refreshing and charming in a nostalgic old school TH-cam kind of way. Broadcast yourself. Joined 17 years ago. This is my jam.
This video is SO December 2010. Love the use of "Subways" in the intro. Change literally nothing; it's perfect. As an elder millenial that has been surfing the World Wide Web since dial up, and witnessed the evolution of YT, this video is wonderfully nostalgic. Cheers, my dude! You made something epic.
@Hyst3ricalCha0s "Elder millenial" is a widely used demarcation. I didn't say "elderly" ffs; not sure what the hyerbole is about? How else does one signify the difference between being 20yo on 9/11 vs being 5yo?
The story from 4Chan is fake. But there are military bases that are set up just like small towns, complete with fast food restaurants and stores ,for the families of the Servicemen to live in and there are also "mock towns" for training So some people assumed the story was about one of those "fake towns" and they added background information that makes the story seem more plausible. I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the "Continuance of Government Sites" that were built in the 1970's and 80's They were often built under commercial buildings located just far enough outside ground zero to survive a nuclear war as a way of maintaining communication throughout the Country. We have one in my town under a commercial building that houses about 10 store fronts , the only reason I know about it is I was in the parking lot 20 years ago and I could hear a Fairbanks Morse Diesel Generator fire up (the engine is the size of a bus) and realized a large pipe sticking out of the ground near the parking lot was actually an exhaust pipe. I operated one of those diesel generators on the USS Ranger , so I instantly recognized the sound. I could hear them go through the same test procedure I used , I was even thinking "this is when they close the GCB" when the traffic lights flickered briefly. They ran it 15 minutes under load and then shut it down. I'm still wondering what the Hell is going on when I notice that there are about a dozen cars in the far corner of the parking lot grouped together and they all have "Base stickers" on their windshields. I've noticed a few other obvious things over the years , like the electrical substation for the building is about 10X bigger that it needs to be , but is the right size for one of those diesel generators. But the most obvious thing lately is the stores fronts have all been vacant for years (After K-Mart closed down across the street the place became a ghost town) but this building still has the lights on and if you call asking about renting a space you get referred to an property management company that's literally a thousand miles away and they don't have a website , people that call are amazed at how rude they are. Edit: After re-reading it I see that I need to make a few things clearer The "underground base" isn't normally occupied, they were just there testing the generator that day. A "Continuance of Government Sites" isn't some super-secret military base with high tech weapons....It's more like a self-sufficient underground college dorm that is a hub for the Defense Information Switched Network (DISN). It's the "Military Internet".
Shut up because they’re absolutely our towns like this, and there are journalist who have found them and ended up dead after. Nobody is talking about sorry ass, military housing bases. 😂
yeah, makes sense its fiction (yk how 4chan is ['u¯]*) nice knowing about ðe military base þing ðough, it sounds really intruiging, if not a bit upsetting...my first þought upon getting to ðe post-greentext was ''huh. yknow, ðat last bit sounds an awful lot like kisaragi station, wiþ ðe 'barely any people and not on any gps' þing." maybe ðe story was based off one or boþ of ðem?
@@jan_Eten It's a story by someone who either did their research or was familiar with one of the real "fake towns" so they crafted their story around it. One of possible explanations is that it was a foreign agency fishing for information, just waiting for someone who was familiar with an actual facility in the area to respond to point out what was wrong with the story.( Like it's actual location) When I first ran across the story my gut feeling was they were looking for info on Continuance of Government Sites in that area.
I know you’re getting a lot of constructive criticism here but I just wanted to say I really love that this video is done mostly in one take, or at least edited to look like that. It feels like if Wikipedia started making audiobooks, yet still incredibly human. Can’t wait to see what else comes out of this channel
fwiw, wikipedia does have audio versions of their articles. they're added by users, you just have to be lucky enough to find an article that has one (or record it yourself!)
I wanna just say I appreciate you having subtitles on all your videos! I unfortunately don’t see it that much, especially on smaller, newer, channels, but it’s very appreciated
no no. when there's a civilian breach the choice of music is anything by celine dion. cause she's canadian, so it's like suggesting someone not native to the town has breached the area.
Bring the mic closer to you, find a smaller pop filter and get a neoprene mat for your desk as you are bouncing a lot of extra noise into your recording due to the big reflective desk between you and the mic... you could even get by putting Jolly between you and the mic as most noise is in line between you and mic until you can spring for a mat etc. Best of luck with your channel!
If your mic has selectable pickup patterns choose shotgun/ cardioid. Being a large diaphragm condenser it’s generally intended for close proximity relative to source mic placement. Really enjoyed your video!!! (My bad, second half of my comment unnecessary -mic placement already mentioned)
I like the under produced rough nature of this video. It lends itself an air of authenticity that I don't get from professional well funded over edited dozen take for a single line videos.
@@Crosbie85 I could get frustrated at this comment. I'm not going to. Instead, I want to wish you well. I hope your life is full of happiness and things that instill in you a sense of gratitude. May the coming years bring you boundless personal growth
This reminded me of the time I doordash’d to a military site. I had to go through a whole process to even get in. When I finally got in after about 20 mins, it looked like something out of the backrooms. Tons of little buildings with numbers that look the exact same, I think these were houses. A few big buildings. I couldn’t tell what most of them were but one was a gym. The place was massive, I got lost inside it. It seriously felt so liminal. I drove around the empty streets in silence other than the elevator music that the speakers were playing. I didn’t see a single person or a car other than parked golf carts and the dude I delivered too. The place was so creepy I deny every order I get from there. But the guys who let me in and the man I delivered too were super nice. Edit: also I love this whole video and your vibe and you. I am very excited to show this video to my dad when he gets home from work.
@geemcspankinson MPs are useless but they aren't delivery men lol. Its just some random 19 year old ordering food to his room. Also sounds like Airforce, Army doesn't usually let people on base without passes, also golf carts are an airforce thing. Their bases are usually a lot smaller, so this story makes sense.
I’m a Utahn (not born, but definitely raised) and nobody I’ve ever known, not even myself, has ever heard of this before. Genuinely can’t wait to hunker down and enjoy learning about something that’s right beyond my doorstep that I never knew about. Keep going Tor, we’re all rooting for you!
I was living in Utah when this supposedly happened and never heard of it. Though i did hear more urban legends and myths in Utah than i have living anywhere else in the States.
My sister’s ex husband worked for a military contractor in Virginia. Their fake town was a replica of an American town (complete even to house decorations and food in refrigerators. Its intended use was to simulate natural disasters because many hazards can catch untrained soldiers by surprise in a residential environment. Equipment can be caught on bedding, rotting food can make a person throw up, enemies can hide under piles of clothes. There was even a faux highway filled with cars and dummies. It looked like a movie set tbh. And the whole city was at the base of a reservoir so it could be flooded as needed for training.
Imagine if the government decided to end homelessness and poverty instead of making entire houses each filled with food just to let it rot for a little military demo
But that might make sense or actually solve a single problem, and we both know the government will never actually do either. Besides, how are they going to fund dick measuring contests and genocides?
How would you honestly know what it looked like if your ex brother-in-law was the one who told you what it looked like? That's not how the military trains for natural disasters. They wouldn't intentionally flood a town because it would constantly make the fake town unsafe for training and it would be a huge waste of water. They do have fake towns for MOUT training, and they do look like a bare-bones movie set. They don't waste money on decorating or landscaping or anything unnecessary. Most buildings don't even have window panes, and a lot aren't even wired for electricity. And all of these MOUT towns are located on military installations.
I had no idea of this, only fake town I knew was nuketown😂, and I knew of the потемкинская деревни (potemkin villages) in Russia and a similar one in north Korea, meant for propaganda purposes, like for tourists to experience "Korean life" (or "soviet life" for that matter), but it makes so much sense to have places like these as training facilities, even have a lot of them to simulate different conditions for training. Now I'm imagining some which must stand on polluted ground to simulate different ABCR situations. Do these also exist?
My sister in law and her husband once got lost in the forest in Java and wound up in a town that was weirdly empty of people despite the buildings looking new. Her cell phone similarly didn't work in the town. There were signs people had left just a few minutes before they arrived. She explained it to me as the Indonesian equivalent of Faerie, and that it would have been dangerous to stay. This 4chan urban legend feels like an American version of the same thing, with military and cults being offered as our cultural explanations because fairies don't exist in our forsaken land.
I dunno, spend enough time in the woods on volcanic mountains in the Pacific Northwest… I’ve seen things from time to time… call them fairies or whatever you want. This summer, I rented a house on the Salmon River on Mt Hood (outside of Portland) for my birthday. We did a mushroom trip and an entire middle earth elvin-looking village appeared across the river. My cousin and I both saw it. Like another realm superimposed onto normal landscape, but totally real and vivid. Little homes in trees and built into the ground, lots of small ladders, trees with faces like people… Next day we crossed the Salmon sober to see what is over there, and it was just a couple shacks and a meth head staring us down (rural folk often don’t like outsiders). Looked nothing like what we saw. I see things sober, too. If you’re open to it, you can see all sorts of things deep in the woods. I do believe it’s real, just not usually visible for most. We both saw the exact same things.
Except it's actually a known phenomenon that training towns exist. They're not numerous or prolific, and there's zero chance you could accidentally stumble into one, but they're real. And I don't mean MOUT towns and the like, but like towns for SERE and CIA training. The US is a big place and it's not hard to hide really, mostly cause they just don't want people messing up things they paid a lot of money to set up.
@@Regansaidso I assume they meant "sister in law" as in the sibling of their spouse. For example, my husband's brother is my brother in law and he is married, so I could refer to his wife as either my sister in law or my brother in law's wife. Words are weird.
One way you can tell this wasn't made by someone who actually lives in Utah is the fact that at the time this post was made, there was practically ZERO Jack in the Box's in Utah, least of all anywhere in central Utah. Jack in the Box finally started putting locations in Utah last year, the post was made in 2019
one my coworkers was telling me about a how jack in the crack moved into his town and it had like an hour long line for months. hes in socal now but im a major league jack in the cracker
@@InstaCody Yeah but that's far south enough that it's practically on the border. The poster was implying Piute Reservoir which is close to Beaver. I've been in and out of that town over my years and from what I recall the closest thing they have to a Jack in the Box over there is a Wendy's and a gas station with sub par chicken
@@InstaCody ah, apologies. The chicken wasn't much to my fancy. From what I remember I think I just thought it was too dry, still tasted pretty good though. In my opinion some of the best chicken in Utah is over by Pineview Reservoir in Northern Utah
Using that unidentifiable song for your intro was beautiful and the other elements are executed so well it's just excellent. I'm going to watch the rest of the video now but well done on the channel title sequence.
I think we're all responding to the low budget authenticity. It's good content, well delivered. You'll be able to make the suggested equipment upgrades and I'm sure you will be successful. Keep up the good work.
Hey! Your channel is freakin amazing! I knew a few of these stories, but you really did a deeper dive and I loved it! Fake towns are a weird little niche of storytelling (fiction or otherwise) that I can’t get enough of. I subbed in the first couple of minutes. I know you’ve already received plenty of constructive criticism, but something that may also help you improve your channel and your speaking skills are vocal warmups. If you start learning about breath control and breathing-based warmups, it will help your vocal clarity and keep you from losing your breath as you read. Your diction is on point, as is your pronunciation, so you definitely already have tons of talent. You can also help your editing-self by filming a couple of extra takes. Don’t ever be afraid to give yourself read options for your final cut. I’m super impressed with what you’ve done so far. I’m so excited to see what you create in the future. I’m also happy that the algorithm is finally picking up newer, smaller channels. We need more passionate creators to drown out at least a little bit of the AI content farm trash. 💜
I don't know how you landed in my recommendations, but I'm glad. I'm going to say like other folks here, yes you need to improve your sound, but you know how to pick a topic and explore it. Absolutely loved this vid. Subbed!
This channel has huge potential. Fixing some of the very basic audio issues as explained as well as mixing volume (also your intro is a bit lengthy) and this is a banger of a channel. I enjoyed this video lots. One direct advice I can give you is that the mic is positioned incorrectly, it should be standing straight up and facing you because the mic picks up directly perpendicular to it when it's in cardioid mode (which I am assuming you're using)
Great video, it strikes the perfect balance for this kind of subject matter -- neither credulous nor entirely dismissive. Also, I love the studio. It's refreshing in a nostalgic way, a reminder of simpler times. I hope you don't ever change it too much.
The Hteropneums stole my lollipop. The fact that you literally just use an A-Ha music video for your intro is absolutely incredible, please never change that. I agree with @RedJay's comment about bringing the mic closer and using a pop filter though. Also bring your monitor closer or otherwise make it easier to read so you're not bobbing and weaving trying to follow along the script. Maybe write the script on PowerPoint slides in big text so it's easier to read and easier to skip through in smaller bites. That criticism aside, excellent and interesting video! Keep it up 🤘
I love that i found your channel! Totally my jam of topics. Especially great how you don't overproduce the videos. I like how you have a great script & read it without cutting every little thing out that gives away that you are an actual human.
Great video, all that needs work is the delivery. A side note though, the tangent on Paper Towns could have probably been used at the start of the video to introduce the overall topic, rather than a brief mention during the middle of the video, giving more time to elaborate or more purpose to it's inclusion in the video
It’s just a FBI training ground. the fully cleaned hotel rooms can easily be explained by the fact that a good bit of hostage situations take place in hotel rooms.
Probably, even just normal police station will do this in abandoned hospitals/hotels. They'll leave everything inside, even very expensive equipment, and just use it to simulate hostage situations/learn various skills like breaching. Creating a very eerie feeling because it looks like a hospital that had everyone just vanish.
I don’t know about that one, the only police involvement in any abandoned hospital or hotel I know of is when they get called over to formally trespass some teenagers who were on the property lol
You look young, and if you wrote this by yourself, very well done. I see your channel doesn't have many videos. But keep it up. You may become a huge hit on TH-cam. Definitely gained me as a subscriber. Thank you for the video. It's okay to take advice, but remember, making your channel around what you would like is what will set it apart from others and unique. Take your time for your full background. Let others guide you but never let someone guide your own creativity when it comes to decorations. Looking forward to seeing your channel grow.
By the way ? When you grabbed the bottle of water at the end . Thought you were gonna reveal your table was as indeed a piano the entire time and play us the outro song. Would have been too good 😂
I absolutely LOVE the authenticity of this video. I LOVE how much character it has. Details such as how the mic isn’t very close to you - the green screen that’s a bit too small to see easily - the fun wall splash behind you. All such amazing details that make for such a great presentation and a fun watch! You did such a great job with your research and telling of the findings. It’s very difficult to find authenticity like this on a platform that is so clouded by people trying to be exactly like one another for the sake of capturing as many views as possible. Your videos will capture a niche audience who will appreciate what you do greatly! People like me! I absolutely love this ! :-)
The fact that the 4chan story talks about “no turn off for an hour” makes it bullshit. Highway 89 has a town every 30-45 miles that it cuts through. Every one of those towns has a little motel in it. There are other highways turning off the road at or in between those towns. That phrase makes a little more sense for an interstate in the desert, but, even then, there are exits every 30 miles or so for “ranch access” in even the most remote locations. It just fella like somebody who has never been to the desert Southwest would *think* the area is like.
@@kMegalonyx you can’t miss them. You literally drive through the middle of them. Highway 89 is the main street in those towns. If you miss them, you are sleeping and won’t notice the passage of time, anyway. More importantly, the road has little roads and pull-off areas all over. Even if you missed a town, you wouldn’t describe being on that road as “being on a road with no turn offs”. I could imagine somebody saying “I hadn’t seen a motel for an hour”. There are more than that, but that’s reasonable to miss, but that’s not at all what the story said.
recording stuff aside, which i believe you will improve in no time, i love the way you script your stuff, and your sense of humor and of course, very interesting topic! cheers from Argentina ma dude!
Really fun video! I was listening to it while cooking and it felt like no time passed at all. I like the way you tell stories (if you work on the audio levels a little more, youll get a ton more viewers for sure)
You definitely have good material and have worked it into a pretty good script! I would try and tighten the editing a bit more so that there's less variable volume levels and would also work a bit more on delivery. As another commenter said, even if nothing else changed, improving your audio quality would do a lot for your delivery. Very interesting video though!
Love the basement pioneer setup. Love the stinky mascot. This operation has old pirate radio vibes. " Unironically quotes Stephen King while looking like Stephen King"
Hey, this was an interesting topic. Your set totally overwhelms you get closer up. On the hand it's a unique aesthetic or as one commentator notes a set recalling cable TV. . Go for it!
There's no way this is your fourth video. You conduct yourself like you've had a channel for years, with only a couple little hiccups here and there. This looks like it's one take with the occasional full-screen edit. That's nuts, and I love it. Keep up the good work, this is great.
39:30 I looked into this clover leaf area. The area is within the boundary of the Yuma Test Center - the military base mentioned. This region west of Route 95 is called the "Cibola Range", which extends basically all the way from Ehrenberg to the area on Google Maps titled "Graze Range". There are a couple of entry roads along the 95 into the Clover roundabout area, with the main route being called "Road 89". The Google car also drove a short distance into it. Also interesting is that there is a General Motors site just south of the location.
Well done, young man. Well written, interesting, and the visuals and production values are fabulous. The person who compared it to public access TV from back in the day was right on the money. Loved it.❤
Yeah, when I was in middle and high school there was a flds family near where I live, and their house was perpetually unfinished. No work was ever done on it, the outside walls were just the bare plywood with no coverings, but they also lived there.
Neat presentation! It seems like everyone is giving some feedback so I'm going to join in, You should think about making the little green screen text bubble bigger... Maybe you could create a green ring on your larger background? Just giving input though, keep it up!
Bahaha, I used to drive through Encino and Vaughn New Mexico to visit home from college ALL THE TIME. Wasn't expecting to hear those weeny towns mentioned. Can confirm, there's NOTHING out there
Your talent is clear, timing and pacing is good! It’s easy to listen and follow you, definitely level up with the wonderful comments found here in the section. Subbed!
Knew it was a fake story as soon as they said there was a jack in the box lol. Didn’t have those in Utah till just recently, there's only 2 I believe and both are in the Salt Lake Valley.
Didn’t see the period in your subscriber count and wasn’t surprised to see 286k. Here’s to that day! Subscribed and don’t change anything but audio quality. People are really responding to your genuine vibe and you are a lovely presenter! Great script, editing, video! Take care and remember that high quality content will get you farther than worrying about how quickly you’re putting out content!
This is very obviously a made up story. Military towns are real, but they are not set up fully (like having actual correct and furnished interiors). They’re bare minimum for training purposes.
Must have been a town abandoned recently... Which is unlikely, I think a clean fast food palce would be broken in and graffitied before the last few 100 people move out of the town.
One of the features you don't hear about the Piute fake town is the nearby Junction Airport. There is as best I can tell no air traffic control tower, terminal, or hangars for commercial aviation. That in it of itself isn't that strange. Whats weird is there is ramp/parking space for civil aviation, but at least when Google did a satellite photo there wasn't even a single plane parked there. Then as well it looks like there is not even a gate to the airfield. My guess is that military or federal law enforcement teams use the airfield to load up on helicopters to go do training assaults on the town at the airfield. Then when they're done they can hop in a C-130 or other transport aircraft and head back to their base when they're done with their training rotation. All this comes of course with the feature of restricting the airspace to drones and other civilian aircraft.
Hey, nice video. Other people, Red Jay in particular already gave you pretty good constructive criticism, so I'll just cheer on you to keep making more stuff!
Fun stuff! Love your energy, commenting to help the ratio. Getting a double dose of A-ha with my spooky story hour is icing on the cake. Subbed and ready for more.
It would be easy to completely remove a place from Google maps. It'd be kinda silly to remove an airfield completely since it's already a known place, but I'm sure there are entire places digitally removed. Edit: At 10:15 right where you had the text looks weirdly smooth, maybe digitally edited or recently bulldozed?
My best friend's sister's boyfriend knows this guy who knows this girl who's cousin saw Ferris Bueller hack into NORAD and play War Games Friday night. I guess it's pretty serious.
Just stumbled across this channel. Charming as all hell and I love the little detail of your spiky friend's origin story at the end. Looking forwards to more.
Hey that’s “‘the most famous unknown song on the internet”. It was famously unknown who made it until EXTREMELY recently , like a weeks. Its presumed title for years was “ Like the wind” but like I said ? Was found out a couple weeks ago not to be it . Real authors finally found to be a band called “ FEX “ . People searched the net for decades as to the authors. It’ll pop up easily on google or TH-cam search . 16:38
"The most mysterious song on the internet", it was lost media for years but it was just recently found in hd. I forgot its name but you can find it easily nowadays
Subways of Your Mind by Juice Medley! I also wanted to find it but couldn’t make out the lyrics and couldn’t hum the melody well enough for the google song feature to pick it up correctly. I ended up putting the video on a different device and holding my phone up to it and the google song feature picked it up!
I got a weird town story. I was driving through the rockies about 10-15 years ago, and I had cooling issues between NM and AZ. We ended up taking back roads for about 45 minutes and ended up in sone really weird little town. Heavily wooded, notably cooler than the surrounding area, and very little traffic. The style felt like the place was caught in the 1980s/early 90s. I pulled up to the Napa (the one auto repair place in town) and asked for some help, and the entire store came out to rebuild my cooling system. They even did preventative maintenance such as topping off fluids and sealing the threads on a bolt that was prone to allowing coolant in the oil. While they were getting work done, we were encouraged to go to a weird restaurant that looked like a swiss chalet. Really good food, and it was very, very cheap, and came with free wine. We're talking like $20 for 2 people, 4 courses. And everyone at the restaurant was _really_ nice, and only one other couple was there at dinnertime, and kept glancing over at us. We were guessing that they were just as lost as we were. After dinner, we went back to the auto parts store, and I was talking to the boss there (who just wrapped up doing $750 of work for $125) and a black couple walks in. The owner stops short, turns to the couple, and says roughly, "we don't accept your kind here," and stared at them until they backed out of the door. In fact, it seemed like everyone working there were staring at the couple. That's when I realized we were in like, a segregationist town or something. We hightailed it outta there, finished the trip, and didn't think about it until about a year later. Curious to the name of the place, I check my map history, try to find the town, and the kverview showed that we were wandering around in a forest with some streets for 6 hours. No map markers or anything. There were some named streets, some with service numbers, but many weren't named at all. And no town name. So I Switched to satellite view, and you can see the town, but that was it. This was before street view, so I couldn't zoom in. Totally bizarre.
Thank you for posting this! I’ve been trying to remember where I saw that story on Reddit because it is one of my favorites. This was a really fun video!
Since other people are giving you video tips ill give one too. You might want to consider recording maybe like a minute or two of video, then pausing for a few seconds before resuming your script reading. You talk like how I would assume everyone talks when they do so for an extended period of time, and idk how the famous youtubers don't talk like that but i think it might be that they only talk in short bursts Good vid tho, it was interesting and entertaining.
My sister and her friend were going to a concert in Southern California. My sister fell asleep and when she woke up she saw a sign welcoming her to Africa, California. There is no Africa, California.
The heteropneums stole my lollipop! Great video, I really appreciated the content. Other people have already suggested technical improvements, but I think this was a solid proof of concept. Look forward to more from you
Hey, this blew up, or at least it blew up more than any of my previous videos! Thanks! I sure wasn't expecting my first comments from strangers to mostly be editing/recording advice, but God knows I need that, so thank you!! Yes, the editing is super janky, especially the volume. It gets better in future videos (and the picture gets a lot crisper) because I recorded this months ago, as I was still figuring out my studio setup, and there are a few things I've learned since. I'm always grateful for advice from people who know their shit, though, because I'm a total newborn with this stuff & I'd love to learn more about how to do it professionally. The suggestion of a neoprene mat for my desk is a new one - I'll order one right away. A bunch of commenters are asking me to get a pop filter, but I have one on my mic - how am I using it wrong? How should I use it correctly?
@@torscabinetofcuriosities you’re not necessarily using it wrong, it’s just ineffective at it’s distance from sound source. you may want to experiment with an audio compressor at some point as it can save your voice from fatigue. I’ll add that I know nothing about TH-cam content creation🤣
Excited for your next essay!
Since I can't add anything of value regarding editing or technical aspects of recording, I'll just say: it's probably a good sign that the comments are all regarding editing, and not complaining about the content 🎉
I like your set up, it's authentic! You don't need to change anything. TH-cam it's full of polished, superficial & boring channels. Great job!
you're doing fine
funny thing about pizzagate is it's all true.
When they shut down that base, the economic toll will be enormous. Five people laid off, 46 jobs lost😂
god dammit that was good
lmao
Dude!?! You funny bro.
I can’t tell whether this channel is unintentionally genius, or I’ve actually stumbled onto a fantastic YT in its early days. I’m sure everyone associated with this is far too young to have any idea of the awkwardness of cable access, but this channel essentially recreates it perfectly. Sure, I could give you a bunch of well-meaning constructive criticisms, but I’ll let others do that & instead just say “well fucking done.” Subscribed.
Freaking SAME!
Yep, same here. Will be happy to watch along as they grow as a creator, best of luck to them. :)
The awkward drinking from the bottle at the end is chef's kiss.
The whole thing is definitely a contrived look. From the hairstyle, the glasses, seat too low, etc. Even the music and intro is designed to convey something from the 80s.
Yeah my advice is dint change anything.
after reading this it certainly has an 80's mtv\ late night access tv feel, nostalgic for damn sure 😎
Free food and place to sleep?! CIA town and pissed off staff or not,you get out of there alive and unharmed, has gotta be a net positive
erm free place to live
Mormons in the CIA? Say it ain't so. 🤣 you want Godless people who know how to keep secrets and have hot dudes for wives...
must be pretty damn secure as well :D
Get get get get got got got got
I love how shit like this isn’t even surprising or hidden to us anymore, like the more weird it is the more we just assume “cia” now and are probably right. Case and point I came looking for this comment and found it
I feel like I just watched the most interesting high school student morning news broadcast 😭💀
Honestly that's a good place to be these days. Its refreshing and charming in a nostalgic old school TH-cam kind of way. Broadcast yourself. Joined 17 years ago. This is my jam.
@@nmxsanchez 18 years here, and I made my share of crummy videos back then
@@nmxsanchezcompletely agree i love it
Lol
Takes me back to college Broadcasting in the 90s.
This video is SO December 2010. Love the use of "Subways" in the intro. Change literally nothing; it's perfect. As an elder millenial that has been surfing the World Wide Web since dial up, and witnessed the evolution of YT, this video is wonderfully nostalgic. Cheers, my dude! You made something epic.
Elder Millennial?
Don't use those words together..they hurt me.
- Fellow Millennial
@Hyst3ricalCha0s "Elder millenial" is a widely used demarcation. I didn't say "elderly" ffs; not sure what the hyerbole is about? How else does one signify the difference between being 20yo on 9/11 vs being 5yo?
Same.
@@ohreally1997 Isn't that generation X?
Also, it was just a bit of banter... My bad dude
Agreed love the scrappy old youtube hate the pristine new youtube
The story from 4Chan is fake.
But there are military bases that are set up just like small towns, complete with fast food restaurants and stores ,for the families of the Servicemen to live in and there are also "mock towns" for training
So some people assumed the story was about one of those "fake towns" and they added background information that makes the story seem more plausible.
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the "Continuance of Government Sites" that were built in the 1970's and 80's
They were often built under commercial buildings located just far enough outside ground zero to survive a nuclear war as a way of maintaining communication throughout the Country.
We have one in my town under a commercial building that houses about 10 store fronts , the only reason I know about it is I was in the parking lot 20 years ago and I could hear a Fairbanks Morse Diesel Generator fire up (the engine is the size of a bus) and realized a large pipe sticking out of the ground near the parking lot was actually an exhaust pipe.
I operated one of those diesel generators on the USS Ranger , so I instantly recognized the sound.
I could hear them go through the same test procedure I used , I was even thinking "this is when they close the GCB" when the traffic lights flickered briefly.
They ran it 15 minutes under load and then shut it down.
I'm still wondering what the Hell is going on when I notice that there are about a dozen cars in the far corner of the parking lot grouped together and they all have "Base stickers" on their windshields.
I've noticed a few other obvious things over the years , like the electrical substation for the building is about 10X bigger that it needs to be , but is the right size for one of those diesel generators.
But the most obvious thing lately is the stores fronts have all been vacant for years (After K-Mart closed down across the street the place became a ghost town) but this building still has the lights on and if you call asking about renting a space you get referred to an property management company that's literally a thousand miles away and they don't have a website , people that call are amazed at how rude they are.
Edit:
After re-reading it I see that I need to make a few things clearer
The "underground base" isn't normally occupied, they were just there testing the generator that day.
A "Continuance of Government Sites" isn't some super-secret military base with high tech weapons....It's more like a self-sufficient underground college dorm that is a hub for the Defense Information Switched Network (DISN).
It's the "Military Internet".
The things you learn from reading TH-cam comments. Humans are awesome.
Shut up because they’re absolutely our towns like this, and there are journalist who have found them and ended up dead after. Nobody is talking about sorry ass, military housing bases. 😂
Military internet? So basically the network that handles the niprnet and siprnet?
yeah, makes sense its fiction (yk how 4chan is ['u¯]*) nice knowing about ðe military base þing ðough, it sounds really intruiging, if not a bit upsetting...my first þought upon getting to ðe post-greentext was ''huh. yknow, ðat last bit sounds an awful lot like kisaragi station, wiþ ðe 'barely any people and not on any gps' þing." maybe ðe story was based off one or boþ of ðem?
@@jan_Eten It's a story by someone who either did their research or was familiar with one of the real "fake towns" so they crafted their story around it.
One of possible explanations is that it was a foreign agency fishing for information, just waiting for someone who was familiar with an actual facility in the area to respond to point out what was wrong with the story.( Like it's actual location)
When I first ran across the story my gut feeling was they were looking for info on Continuance of Government Sites in that area.
I know you’re getting a lot of constructive criticism here but I just wanted to say I really love that this video is done mostly in one take, or at least edited to look like that. It feels like if Wikipedia started making audiobooks, yet still incredibly human. Can’t wait to see what else comes out of this channel
Great description 🤭 that’s a phenomenal idea by the way.
Nah bro should slow down and take a breather every once and a while
fwiw, wikipedia does have audio versions of their articles. they're added by users, you just have to be lucky enough to find an article that has one (or record it yourself!)
I wanna just say I appreciate you having subtitles on all your videos! I unfortunately don’t see it that much, especially on smaller, newer, channels, but it’s very appreciated
I second this! As someone with auditory processing issues, subtitles are a MUST. Thank you, Tor, for having subtitles on all of your videos :)
Yeah, subtitles are always welcome!
THIS. I can’t count how many times I couldn’t watch and enjoy something because there wasn’t subtitles.
!! Right ? It’s so helpful I appreciate it lots.
yea seriously! i always watch w subtitles and it's so nice when someone goes to the trouble of adding actual subtitles instead of autocaptions
Did anyone else think maybe the jazz music was some sort of a code to all that there was perhaps a civilian breach ?
Good catch. That's exactly the kind of innocuous single that would be used for something like that.
no no. when there's a civilian breach the choice of music is anything by celine dion. cause she's canadian, so it's like suggesting someone not native to the town has breached the area.
@@occamsrazor1285 *Signal?
how can you write off conspiracies on 4chan then talk about a cia town that alerts people with jazz LOL
Bring the mic closer to you, find a smaller pop filter and get a neoprene mat for your desk as you are bouncing a lot of extra noise into your recording due to the big reflective desk between you and the mic... you could even get by putting Jolly between you and the mic as most noise is in line between you and mic until you can spring for a mat etc. Best of luck with your channel!
This. That mic is about 3 feet further away from your mouth than it was designed to be.
Actual constructive criticism is a breath of fresh air.
If your mic has selectable pickup patterns choose shotgun/ cardioid. Being a large diaphragm condenser it’s generally intended for close proximity relative to source mic placement.
Really enjoyed your video!!!
(My bad, second half of my comment unnecessary -mic placement already mentioned)
epic criticism
Was about to comment the same. Very cool video, but "bad" audio sticks out like a sore thumb.
I like the under produced rough nature of this video. It lends itself an air of authenticity that I don't get from professional well funded over edited dozen take for a single line videos.
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@@Crosbie85you should stop commenting on youtube videos until youre at least an adult hope this helps
Something about stutters not being edited out is refreshing
@@Crosbie85 I could get frustrated at this comment.
I'm not going to. Instead, I want to wish you well. I hope your life is full of happiness and things that instill in you a sense of gratitude. May the coming years bring you boundless personal growth
This reminded me of the time I doordash’d to a military site.
I had to go through a whole process to even get in. When I finally got in after about 20 mins, it looked like something out of the backrooms. Tons of little buildings with numbers that look the exact same, I think these were houses. A few big buildings. I couldn’t tell what most of them were but one was a gym.
The place was massive, I got lost inside it. It seriously felt so liminal. I drove around the empty streets in silence other than the elevator music that the speakers were playing. I didn’t see a single person or a car other than parked golf carts and the dude I delivered too.
The place was so creepy I deny every order I get from there. But the guys who let me in and the man I delivered too were super nice.
Edit: also I love this whole video and your vibe and you. I am very excited to show this video to my dad when he gets home from work.
It’s not that scary dawg, most people in Florida live near a military base.
Weird that they didn't just make an mp take in the delivery at the gate
@geemcspankinson MPs are useless but they aren't delivery men lol. Its just some random 19 year old ordering food to his room. Also sounds like Airforce, Army doesn't usually let people on base without passes, also golf carts are an airforce thing. Their bases are usually a lot smaller, so this story makes sense.
did you get s good tip
It's funny how you guys never post coordinates.
I’m a Utahn (not born, but definitely raised) and nobody I’ve ever known, not even myself, has ever heard of this before. Genuinely can’t wait to hunker down and enjoy learning about something that’s right beyond my doorstep that I never knew about. Keep going Tor, we’re all rooting for you!
I was living in Utah when this supposedly happened and never heard of it. Though i did hear more urban legends and myths in Utah than i have living anywhere else in the States.
My sister’s ex husband worked for a military contractor in Virginia. Their fake town was a replica of an American town (complete even to house decorations and food in refrigerators. Its intended use was to simulate natural disasters because many hazards can catch untrained soldiers by surprise in a residential environment. Equipment can be caught on bedding, rotting food can make a person throw up, enemies can hide under piles of clothes. There was even a faux highway filled with cars and dummies. It looked like a movie set tbh. And the whole city was at the base of a reservoir so it could be flooded as needed for training.
Imagine if the government decided to end homelessness and poverty instead of making entire houses each filled with food just to let it rot for a little military demo
But that might make sense or actually solve a single problem, and we both know the government will never actually do either. Besides, how are they going to fund dick measuring contests and genocides?
How would you honestly know what it looked like if your ex brother-in-law was the one who told you what it looked like? That's not how the military trains for natural disasters. They wouldn't intentionally flood a town because it would constantly make the fake town unsafe for training and it would be a huge waste of water. They do have fake towns for MOUT training, and they do look like a bare-bones movie set. They don't waste money on decorating or landscaping or anything unnecessary. Most buildings don't even have window panes, and a lot aren't even wired for electricity. And all of these MOUT towns are located on military installations.
@@xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395 we both know its not gonna happen
I had no idea of this, only fake town I knew was nuketown😂, and I knew of the потемкинская деревни (potemkin villages) in Russia and a similar one in north Korea, meant for propaganda purposes, like for tourists to experience "Korean life" (or "soviet life" for that matter), but it makes so much sense to have places like these as training facilities, even have a lot of them to simulate different conditions for training. Now I'm imagining some which must stand on polluted ground to simulate different ABCR situations. Do these also exist?
My sister in law and her husband once got lost in the forest in Java and wound up in a town that was weirdly empty of people despite the buildings looking new. Her cell phone similarly didn't work in the town. There were signs people had left just a few minutes before they arrived. She explained it to me as the Indonesian equivalent of Faerie, and that it would have been dangerous to stay. This 4chan urban legend feels like an American version of the same thing, with military and cults being offered as our cultural explanations because fairies don't exist in our forsaken land.
I dunno, spend enough time in the woods on volcanic mountains in the Pacific Northwest… I’ve seen things from time to time… call them fairies or whatever you want.
This summer, I rented a house on the Salmon River on Mt Hood (outside of Portland) for my birthday. We did a mushroom trip and an entire middle earth elvin-looking village appeared across the river. My cousin and I both saw it. Like another realm superimposed onto normal landscape, but totally real and vivid. Little homes in trees and built into the ground, lots of small ladders, trees with faces like people…
Next day we crossed the Salmon sober to see what is over there, and it was just a couple shacks and a meth head staring us down (rural folk often don’t like outsiders). Looked nothing like what we saw.
I see things sober, too. If you’re open to it, you can see all sorts of things deep in the woods.
I do believe it’s real, just not usually visible for most. We both saw the exact same things.
Except it's actually a known phenomenon that training towns exist. They're not numerous or prolific, and there's zero chance you could accidentally stumble into one, but they're real. And I don't mean MOUT towns and the like, but like towns for SERE and CIA training. The US is a big place and it's not hard to hide really, mostly cause they just don't want people messing up things they paid a lot of money to set up.
Yep defs no faeries in the US, just military, cults and pedophile islands/towns
Your sister in law and her husband……you mean your brother…?
@@Regansaidso I assume they meant "sister in law" as in the sibling of their spouse. For example, my husband's brother is my brother in law and he is married, so I could refer to his wife as either my sister in law or my brother in law's wife. Words are weird.
One way you can tell this wasn't made by someone who actually lives in Utah is the fact that at the time this post was made, there was practically ZERO Jack in the Box's in Utah, least of all anywhere in central Utah. Jack in the Box finally started putting locations in Utah last year, the post was made in 2019
one my coworkers was telling me about a how jack in the crack moved into his town and it had like an hour long line for months. hes in socal now but im a major league jack in the cracker
They have jack in the box in saint george since at least 2000s
@@InstaCody Yeah but that's far south enough that it's practically on the border. The poster was implying Piute Reservoir which is close to Beaver. I've been in and out of that town over my years and from what I recall the closest thing they have to a Jack in the Box over there is a Wendy's and a gas station with sub par chicken
@@dannyboidee I know what gas station you are talking about. My family has owned it for generations and the chicken is a cherished family recipe
@@InstaCody ah, apologies. The chicken wasn't much to my fancy. From what I remember I think I just thought it was too dry, still tasted pretty good though. In my opinion some of the best chicken in Utah is over by Pineview Reservoir in Northern Utah
Using that unidentifiable song for your intro was beautiful and the other elements are executed so well it's just excellent. I'm going to watch the rest of the video now but well done on the channel title sequence.
Not sure if you're aware of this now but that song was actually identified recently!
The song has been identified BTW. It's Subways of Your Mind by FEX
this is such a cute channel dude im so excited to see what you do next
also i was just thinking of this topic a week ago!! it’s been on my mind since i learned about it about a year ago
cute?
I find how you forget to breathe sometimes, relatable. Great video, by the way. Subbing!
I think we're all responding to the low budget authenticity. It's good content, well delivered. You'll be able to make the suggested equipment upgrades and I'm sure you will be successful. Keep up the good work.
Subscribed
Hey! Your channel is freakin amazing! I knew a few of these stories, but you really did a deeper dive and I loved it! Fake towns are a weird little niche of storytelling (fiction or otherwise) that I can’t get enough of. I subbed in the first couple of minutes.
I know you’ve already received plenty of constructive criticism, but something that may also help you improve your channel and your speaking skills are vocal warmups. If you start learning about breath control and breathing-based warmups, it will help your vocal clarity and keep you from losing your breath as you read. Your diction is on point, as is your pronunciation, so you definitely already have tons of talent.
You can also help your editing-self by filming a couple of extra takes. Don’t ever be afraid to give yourself read options for your final cut.
I’m super impressed with what you’ve done so far. I’m so excited to see what you create in the future. I’m also happy that the algorithm is finally picking up newer, smaller channels. We need more passionate creators to drown out at least a little bit of the AI content farm trash. 💜
I don't know how you landed in my recommendations, but I'm glad.
I'm going to say like other folks here, yes you need to improve your sound, but you know how to pick a topic and explore it. Absolutely loved this vid.
Subbed!
This channel has huge potential. Fixing some of the very basic audio issues as explained as well as mixing volume (also your intro is a bit lengthy) and this is a banger of a channel. I enjoyed this video lots. One direct advice I can give you is that the mic is positioned incorrectly, it should be standing straight up and facing you because the mic picks up directly perpendicular to it when it's in cardioid mode (which I am assuming you're using)
With just a little effort it could be as successful as thousands of other channels with great audio production and single-digit views.
Great video, it strikes the perfect balance for this kind of subject matter -- neither credulous nor entirely dismissive. Also, I love the studio. It's refreshing in a nostalgic way, a reminder of simpler times. I hope you don't ever change it too much.
The into was so good man got me hooked automatically and then your theme song, or whatever it’s called, very crisp bro love the vibe!
fun fact: that song was lost media for several decades until very recently it was discovered to be Subways of Your Mind by FEX
The Hteropneums stole my lollipop. The fact that you literally just use an A-Ha music video for your intro is absolutely incredible, please never change that. I agree with @RedJay's comment about bringing the mic closer and using a pop filter though. Also bring your monitor closer or otherwise make it easier to read so you're not bobbing and weaving trying to follow along the script. Maybe write the script on PowerPoint slides in big text so it's easier to read and easier to skip through in smaller bites. That criticism aside, excellent and interesting video! Keep it up 🤘
The video may be A-Ha, but the music played is instead FEX!
I love that i found your channel! Totally my jam of topics.
Especially great how you don't overproduce the videos. I like how you have a great script & read it without cutting every little thing out that gives away that you are an actual human.
Great video, all that needs work is the delivery. A side note though, the tangent on Paper Towns could have probably been used at the start of the video to introduce the overall topic, rather than a brief mention during the middle of the video, giving more time to elaborate or more purpose to it's inclusion in the video
It’s just a FBI training ground. the fully cleaned hotel rooms can easily be explained by the fact that a good bit of hostage situations take place in hotel rooms.
Probably, even just normal police station will do this in abandoned hospitals/hotels. They'll leave everything inside, even very expensive equipment, and just use it to simulate hostage situations/learn various skills like breaching. Creating a very eerie feeling because it looks like a hospital that had everyone just vanish.
I don’t know about that one, the only police involvement in any abandoned hospital or hotel I know of is when they get called over to formally trespass some teenagers who were on the property lol
So glad this channel came up on my recommendations. And Thankyou for subtitles.
You look young, and if you wrote this by yourself, very well done. I see your channel doesn't have many videos. But keep it up. You may become a huge hit on TH-cam. Definitely gained me as a subscriber. Thank you for the video. It's okay to take advice, but remember, making your channel around what you would like is what will set it apart from others and unique. Take your time for your full background. Let others guide you but never let someone guide your own creativity when it comes to decorations. Looking forward to seeing your channel grow.
i’m tuning in on the regular if you make more content like this
Same 🎉
By the way ? When you grabbed the bottle of water at the end . Thought you were gonna reveal your table was as indeed a piano the entire time and play us the outro song.
Would have been too good 😂
So i wasn't the only one who thought that!
Ditto. 😂
You have a way with words and your storytelling is really promising. You're lovely! instant subscribe!
I absolutely LOVE the authenticity of this video. I LOVE how much character it has. Details such as how the mic isn’t very close to you - the green screen that’s a bit too small to see easily - the fun wall splash behind you. All such amazing details that make for such a great presentation and a fun watch! You did such a great job with your research and telling of the findings.
It’s very difficult to find authenticity like this on a platform that is so clouded by people trying to be exactly like one another for the sake of capturing as many views as possible. Your videos will capture a niche audience who will appreciate what you do greatly! People like me! I absolutely love this ! :-)
The fact that the 4chan story talks about “no turn off for an hour” makes it bullshit. Highway 89 has a town every 30-45 miles that it cuts through. Every one of those towns has a little motel in it. There are other highways turning off the road at or in between those towns.
That phrase makes a little more sense for an interstate in the desert, but, even then, there are exits every 30 miles or so for “ranch access” in even the most remote locations. It just fella like somebody who has never been to the desert Southwest would *think* the area is like.
So u only gotta miss one for it to seem like none for an hour?
Yeah that's what I got too
@@kMegalonyx you can’t miss them. You literally drive through the middle of them. Highway 89 is the main street in those towns. If you miss them, you are sleeping and won’t notice the passage of time, anyway.
More importantly, the road has little roads and pull-off areas all over. Even if you missed a town, you wouldn’t describe being on that road as “being on a road with no turn offs”. I could imagine somebody saying “I hadn’t seen a motel for an hour”. There are more than that, but that’s reasonable to miss, but that’s not at all what the story said.
put this vid on too go to sleep ended glued too the screen your awkwardness really brings the content alive man keep it up as weird as that sounds lol
recording stuff aside, which i believe you will improve in no time, i love the way you script your stuff, and your sense of humor
and of course, very interesting topic!
cheers from Argentina ma dude!
"the heteropneums stole my lollipop". Nice video. I'm very glad I found your channel. Liked and subscribed 👍
Really fun video! I was listening to it while cooking and it felt like no time passed at all. I like the way you tell stories (if you work on the audio levels a little more, youll get a ton more viewers for sure)
You definitely have good material and have worked it into a pretty good script! I would try and tighten the editing a bit more so that there's less variable volume levels and would also work a bit more on delivery. As another commenter said, even if nothing else changed, improving your audio quality would do a lot for your delivery. Very interesting video though!
Haven’t enjoyed content like this in a longtime. Thanks and great work!
Love the basement pioneer setup. Love the stinky mascot. This operation has old pirate radio vibes.
" Unironically quotes Stephen King while looking like Stephen King"
Love seeing comment sections of new creators filled with encouragement and constructive feedback.
This hits that classic youtube feeling in all the right ways. Keep up the great work.
your like 13 you werent on classic youtube
Your channel deserves more subs its hard for me to finish a video all the way through but i was super into this one!
Hey, this was an interesting topic. Your set totally overwhelms you get closer up. On the hand it's a unique aesthetic or as one commentator notes a set recalling cable TV. . Go for it!
Love the video! I was shocked to see how many subs you have. Keep up the hard work and I'm sure you'll blow up
There's no way this is your fourth video. You conduct yourself like you've had a channel for years, with only a couple little hiccups here and there. This looks like it's one take with the occasional full-screen edit. That's nuts, and I love it. Keep up the good work, this is great.
39:30 I looked into this clover leaf area. The area is within the boundary of the Yuma Test Center - the military base mentioned. This region west of Route 95 is called the "Cibola Range", which extends basically all the way from Ehrenberg to the area on Google Maps titled "Graze Range". There are a couple of entry roads along the 95 into the Clover roundabout area, with the main route being called "Road 89". The Google car also drove a short distance into it. Also interesting is that there is a General Motors site just south of the location.
the article “3:10 to Baghdad” talks about the specific area, it’s used to train dogs
@@alexf6994 that is very interesting, I just spent the last 30 mins looking at google map satellite imagery and street view 😂
Well done, young man. Well written, interesting, and the visuals and production values are fabulous. The person who compared it to public access TV from back in the day was right on the money. Loved it.❤
I subscribed as soon as I heard Subways of Your Mind in the intro!!
FEX as the intro its an insta sub for me, good work dude!! i feel like your channel will get pretty big soon
Like the wind as the theme song ? Uniquely weird and good channel . I love it . I’ll be subbing and hoping for similar weird but real content.
Only to find I’ve already subbed and don’t remember watching any of the videos! Spooky 😮
Yeah, when I was in middle and high school there was a flds family near where I live, and their house was perpetually unfinished. No work was ever done on it, the outside walls were just the bare plywood with no coverings, but they also lived there.
Nice job man. Your narration kept me interested. Improve your production values and your channel should grow quickly.
so glad to see newer channels on my recommended! keep going, this is really good!!
ive missed this vibe in youtube videos tbh
This video was so nostalgic feeling yet came with up to date information. Keep doing exactly what youre doing my man
Neat presentation! It seems like everyone is giving some feedback so I'm going to join in, You should think about making the little green screen text bubble bigger... Maybe you could create a green ring on your larger background? Just giving input though, keep it up!
I love how you move your head to read your script from behind the camera lol. Entertaining vid.
Southern Utah resident here (nearly 50 years now), who haunts the weirdest loneliest places he can find. I call BS.
If you keep making videos like this one, your channel’s gonna be huge. I feel lucky to have found this.
1:30 Jack in the Box didn't open in utah until 2023....
Yeah, this is the kind of channel I want to binge to. Good video! 👍
Bahaha, I used to drive through Encino and Vaughn New Mexico to visit home from college ALL THE TIME. Wasn't expecting to hear those weeny towns mentioned. Can confirm, there's NOTHING out there
Your talent is clear, timing and pacing is good! It’s easy to listen and follow you, definitely level up with the wonderful comments found here in the section.
Subbed!
Subscribed! This channel is a hidden gem!
this is a great video, im surprised you're such a small channel! i'd love to see more weird stories like this from you!
Knew it was a fake story as soon as they said there was a jack in the box lol. Didn’t have those in Utah till just recently, there's only 2 I believe and both are in the Salt Lake Valley.
Didn’t see the period in your subscriber count and wasn’t surprised to see 286k. Here’s to that day! Subscribed and don’t change anything but audio quality. People are really responding to your genuine vibe and you are a lovely presenter! Great script, editing, video! Take care and remember that high quality content will get you farther than worrying about how quickly you’re putting out content!
This is very obviously a made up story. Military towns are real, but they are not set up fully (like having actual correct and furnished interiors). They’re bare minimum for training purposes.
Or, the millitary used an abandoned town and repurposed it for training, explaining the existing brands
or the story is pure fiction.. which it is.
Must have been a town abandoned recently... Which is unlikely, I think a clean fast food palce would be broken in and graffitied before the last few 100 people move out of the town.
I love the vibe of this channel, it's so authentic! The style of your videos is somehow really warm and comforting.
7:12 Wayward Pines played this trope out wonderfully
Absolutely STELLAR series, easily in my top faves
I love your channel, the whole set up looks like a little one-man radio show. Generally, love the vibe, and the subjects. Keep it up!!
One of the features you don't hear about the Piute fake town is the nearby Junction Airport. There is as best I can tell no air traffic control tower, terminal, or hangars for commercial aviation. That in it of itself isn't that strange. Whats weird is there is ramp/parking space for civil aviation, but at least when Google did a satellite photo there wasn't even a single plane parked there. Then as well it looks like there is not even a gate to the airfield. My guess is that military or federal law enforcement teams use the airfield to load up on helicopters to go do training assaults on the town at the airfield. Then when they're done they can hop in a C-130 or other transport aircraft and head back to their base when they're done with their training rotation. All this comes of course with the feature of restricting the airspace to drones and other civilian aircraft.
So glad TH-cam recommended your channel, love this video, excited to see more
Hey, nice video. Other people, Red Jay in particular already gave you pretty good constructive criticism, so I'll just cheer on you to keep making more stuff!
Fun stuff! Love your energy, commenting to help the ratio. Getting a double dose of A-ha with my spooky story hour is icing on the cake. Subbed and ready for more.
It would be easy to completely remove a place from Google maps. It'd be kinda silly to remove an airfield completely since it's already a known place, but I'm sure there are entire places digitally removed.
Edit: At 10:15 right where you had the text looks weirdly smooth, maybe digitally edited or recently bulldozed?
Go slower on the uploads, like one of these per week and something of a zinger in between. Go slow..you got this! Enjoyed your video.
This was awesome dude. I love the style. The edits are great, and the research was great. Cant wait to see more
My best friend's sister's boyfriend knows this guy who knows this girl who's cousin saw Ferris Bueller hack into NORAD and play War Games Friday night. I guess it's pretty serious.
Just stumbled across this channel. Charming as all hell and I love the little detail of your spiky friend's origin story at the end. Looking forwards to more.
Hey what's the name of the song you played for the intro? More specifically, can you link the version used please? 5:15
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Hey that’s “‘the most famous unknown song on the internet”. It was famously unknown who made it until EXTREMELY recently , like a weeks.
Its presumed title for years was “ Like the wind” but like I said ? Was found out a couple weeks ago not to be it . Real authors finally found to be a band called “ FEX “ .
People searched the net for decades as to the authors. It’ll pop up easily on google or TH-cam search . 16:38
"The most mysterious song on the internet", it was lost media for years but it was just recently found in hd. I forgot its name but you can find it easily nowadays
Subways of Your Mind by Juice Medley! I also wanted to find it but couldn’t make out the lyrics and couldn’t hum the melody well enough for the google song feature to pick it up correctly. I ended up putting the video on a different device and holding my phone up to it and the google song feature picked it up!
This is one of the best new video essays I've seen in a bit-- covered huge swaths of info in a super organized manner! can't wait to watch more :]
About 70% of Utah is federal property.
I got a weird town story. I was driving through the rockies about 10-15 years ago, and I had cooling issues between NM and AZ. We ended up taking back roads for about 45 minutes and ended up in sone really weird little town. Heavily wooded, notably cooler than the surrounding area, and very little traffic. The style felt like the place was caught in the 1980s/early 90s. I pulled up to the Napa (the one auto repair place in town) and asked for some help, and the entire store came out to rebuild my cooling system. They even did preventative maintenance such as topping off fluids and sealing the threads on a bolt that was prone to allowing coolant in the oil. While they were getting work done, we were encouraged to go to a weird restaurant that looked like a swiss chalet. Really good food, and it was very, very cheap, and came with free wine. We're talking like $20 for 2 people, 4 courses. And everyone at the restaurant was _really_ nice, and only one other couple was there at dinnertime, and kept glancing over at us. We were guessing that they were just as lost as we were.
After dinner, we went back to the auto parts store, and I was talking to the boss there (who just wrapped up doing $750 of work for $125) and a black couple walks in. The owner stops short, turns to the couple, and says roughly, "we don't accept your kind here," and stared at them until they backed out of the door. In fact, it seemed like everyone working there were staring at the couple. That's when I realized we were in like, a segregationist town or something. We hightailed it outta there, finished the trip, and didn't think about it until about a year later. Curious to the name of the place, I check my map history, try to find the town, and the kverview showed that we were wandering around in a forest with some streets for 6 hours. No map markers or anything. There were some named streets, some with service numbers, but many weren't named at all. And no town name. So I Switched to satellite view, and you can see the town, but that was it. This was before street view, so I couldn't zoom in.
Totally bizarre.
Omg no way that sounds crazy. Is there anyway you could send the names of some of those small roads I kinda just wanna see it on google maps myself?
This sounds like a summary of The house made out of wax. with few changes to the script
Thank you for posting this! I’ve been trying to remember where I saw that story on Reddit because it is one of my favorites. This was a really fun video!
Since other people are giving you video tips ill give one too. You might want to consider recording maybe like a minute or two of video, then pausing for a few seconds before resuming your script reading. You talk like how I would assume everyone talks when they do so for an extended period of time, and idk how the famous youtubers don't talk like that but i think it might be that they only talk in short bursts
Good vid tho, it was interesting and entertaining.
This is the type of TH-cam content that I’ve been missing. Keep up the great work, dude!
My sister and her friend were going to a concert in Southern California. My sister fell asleep and when she woke up she saw a sign welcoming her to Africa, California.
There is no Africa, California.
Looks like she stumbled upon the emirate of Slowjamistan.
The heteropneums stole my lollipop! Great video, I really appreciated the content. Other people have already suggested technical improvements, but I think this was a solid proof of concept. Look forward to more from you
Youre the next wendigoon. Heres a sub. Keep it comin
I prefer him to Wendigoon
Much love for new creators. Subscribed! Keep it up!
it's like the entire video had the volume turned down
Dude, when i heard like the wind playing in your intro, I knew i had to INSTANTLY subcribe this is some good stuff